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"Gendering the Comparative Analysis of Welfare States" (2009)
Can feminists count on welfare states-or at least some aspects of these complex systems-as resources in the struggle for gender equality? Gender analysts of "welfare states" investigate this question and the broader set of issues around the mutually constitutive relationship between systems of social provision and regulation and gender. Feminist scholars have moved to bring the contingent practice of politics back into grounded fields of action and social change and away from the reification and abstractions that had come to dominate models of politics focused on "big" structures and systems, including those focused on "welfare states." Conceptual innovations and reconceptualizations of foundational terms have been especially prominent in the comparative scholarship on welfare states, starting with gender, and including care, autonomy, citizenship, (in)dependence, political agency, and equality. In contrast to other subfields of political science and sociology, gendered insights have to some extent been incorporated into mainstream comparative scholarship on welfare states. The arguments between feminists and mainstream scholars over the course of the last two decades have been productive, powering the development of key themes and concepts pioneered by gender scholars, including "defamilialization," the significance of unpaid care work in families and the difficulties of work-family "reconciliation," gendered welfare state institutions, the relation between fertility and women's employment, and the partisan correlates of different family and gender policy models. Yet the mainstream still resists the deeper implications of feminist work, and has difficulties assimilating concepts of care, gendered power, dependency, and interdependency. Thus, the agenda of gendering comparative welfare state studies remains unfinished. To develop an understanding of what might be needed to finish that agenda, I assess the gendered contributions to the analysis of modern systems of social provision, starting with the concept of gender itself, then moving to studies of the gendered division of labor (including care) and of gendered political power.
Estudios Working Papers, 1996
I would like to thank Renee Monson for helpful comments and discussions about gendered interests, the nature of the relationship between gender relations and welfare states, and the feminization of poverty. Thanks to Kathrina Zippel for general research assistance on this project, and for providing a summary of the literature on gender and the welfare state in Germany, including many works written in German.
Annual Review of Sociology, 1996
I would like to thank Renee Monson for helpful comments and discussions about gendered interests, the nature of the relationship between gender relations and welfare states, and the feminization of poverty. Thanks to Kathrina Zippel for general research assistance on this project, and for providing a summary of the literature on gender and the welfare state in Germany, including many works written in German.
The Impact of Welfare Regimes on Gender Equality
This paper assesses the impact of welfare state regimes on creation of genderequality which is understood as equal economic opportunities and greater reconciliation of work and family between sexes. It identifies which welfare regimesupports women the most in both dimensions. It uses the Esping-Andersen’s typology of welfare regimes (1990) to segregate welfare regimes according to promotion of genderequal economic opportunities and their ability to reconciliation of work and family life.The paper investigates the outcomes of different indicators that affect presence of gender equality across welfare clusters (15 OECD countries), furthermore three casestudies of welfare regime characteristics and their linkage to presence of gender equalpolicies is investigated. These cases are: Sweden (socialdemocratic regime), Germany(corporatist-statist regime) and the United States (liberal welfare regime).At the final stage, clusters are examined under the Hierarchical Cluster Analysis(HCA) to confirm dissimilarities of welfare characteristics towards creation of gender-equal economic and reconciliation of work and family. As the result of this researchpaper, further strengthened by HCA statistical investigation, the socialdemocratic cluster emerged as the most equal in creation of gender equal opportunities in bothdimension. The liberal cluster lags in underdeveloped policies of work and family reconciliation, while corporatist-statist suffers from inability to create equal economic opportunities, further negatively strengthened by minimal state welfare provision towards reconciliation of work and family responsibilities.